Usually, we spend several hours in front of the computer without taking any breaks. This addiction can badly affect our health. Doctors and eye specialists suggest taking frequent breaks to reduce eye strain, but who cares? Userhealth is a small freeware which keeps a count of your keystrokes, mouse clicks and computer uptime. It periodically sends popup alerts you to take breaks, or go to bed. Userhealth is both a virtual doctor and a mother. If you stay up late at night, you can set Userhealth to call annoying mother and she will sit at the bottom right of your screen and suggest you to go to bed. If you fail, she might even turn off your computer.
Keeping track of your daily uptime, keystrokes and mouse clicks can be quite fun. Sometimes the count might get unbelievably high. For folks like me, who usually spend blogging whole night, this software is a life saver. My keystrokes have reached 1200 within 15 minutes! I’m curious to learn your stats, share it through comments below. It might not be long before Doctors start prescribing this freeware 
Thanks Anirudh, you’re a hero!
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wrote, on March 15th, 2007
You can view the system uptime in windows xp by typing
systeminfo
at the command prompt.
wrote, on March 15th, 2007
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wrote, on March 15th, 2007
Nice freeware but even you know thilak no one even doctors can’t stop techno and blog addicted .Than who about this freeware report .
wrote, on March 15th, 2007
Thanks thilak.
Todays count: 6000 and counting
mouse clicks: 432
uptime today: 18 hours and 25 mins (The system uptime is 6 days and 8 hours)
Active time: 1 hour 25 mins
Average active time: 2 hours 15 mins
wrote, on March 15th, 2007
Nice utility but even if it gave any warning about rest and sleep , will we accept it ?
wrote, on March 15th, 2007
[...] when you are gaming, time pass even faster. While reading my feeds a while ago, I stumbled upon Thilak’s post about UserHealth - a nagging program to remind us to have a break after a period of time using the [...]
wrote, on March 15th, 2007
^i think we completely in control with this software.. mybe u just can ignore the messg or close the warning windows etc..
wrote, on March 15th, 2007
Madhur, Izzatz: What if the program automatically turns your computer off?
wrote, on March 16th, 2007
all software act on our decision.. it will not turn ur computer off unless u make it to do so..
for example, if u set the program to shut down after few days of uptime.. n it surely will shut down ur computer as it has been command..
wrote, on March 16th, 2007
Oh… Cool… Finally there is someone to alert me
lol
wrote, on March 16th, 2007
well software looks quite cool but no software can make a pc addict leave system….becuse its my passion.
wrote, on March 16th, 2007
If i turns my computer off , i wont be using it as i am to addictive to my computer .
wrote, on March 18th, 2007
This is really innovative. Technically small idea, but usage is big. Excellent work.